Water Resources

Using the science of paleohydrology--the study of water use and water handling by ancient people--Wright and his researchers were able to prove that this and other similar sights in the park were in fact reservoirs for ancient peoples who lived in Mesa Verde.

This book covers the peculiar past of Dinosaur National Monument including an environmental history of the first major public opposition to a proposed dam in a wilderness area.

Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California.

This book is a historical study of the Winters case and the early use of the reserved water doctrine. Shurts explains how the litigation and its outcome fit well within the existing legal context and into ongoing efforts at water development in the Milk River Valley and examines the life of the Winters Doctrine during its earliest years, primarily through a study of water-rights litigation on the Uintah Reservation in Utah.

Covers water rights, law and legislative history in Colorado.

This book discusses water supply issues and water resource development issues in the state of Colorado.

This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilization.

This book presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms. It then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. Finally, it deals with the role of water in the rise and fall of civilizations.

Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas need water. Cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. Dam Nation looks first to the past, to the stories of the California gold rush and the earliest attempts by men to shape the landscape and tame it, takes us to the "Great American Desert" and the settlement of the west under the theory that "rain follows the plow," and then takes on the ongoing legal and moral battles in the West.